Population: 9 697 thousand people. The military budget is 365 million dollars (2000). The regular forces are 35 000 people. Militarized formations: National Guard - 12 000 people. Recruitment for the army - draft. Hitch - 12 months. Mobilization resources - 2,7 million people, including 1,5 million able-bodied men.
Land forces: 27 000 people, 5 brigades (3 mechanized, 1 desert, 1 special), 1 regiment of engineers. Arms: 84 tanks M60, 55 light tanks Cuirassier, 69 armoured reconnaissance vehicles, 268 armored troop carriers, 117 105 and 155 mm towed guns, 155 mortars, 600 antitank missile system (ТOY, Milan), 115 20 and 37 mm antiaircraft guns, 48 portable surface-to-air missile systems RVZ-70, 253 Chaparrel.
Air force: 3 500 people (including 700 in service for a fixed period), 44 war-planes, 7 combat helicopters. Planes and helicopters: 15 F-5E and F, 10 MB-326B, K and L, 7 C-130B and Н, Falcon-20, 3 LET-410, 2 S-208M, 18 SF-260 C and W, 12 L-59, 5 SA-341, 2 HH-3, 15 AB-205, 6 AS-350B, AS-365, 3 SA-313, 3 SA-316, 4 UH-1H/N.
Naval forces: 4 500 people, 6 missile boats (3 Combatan-3, 3 Bizerte). 13 patrol vessels (3 Shanghai-2, about 10 small ones), 1 oceanographic vessel Robert Conrad, 1 hydrographic vessel Wilks, 2 support vessels. Coastguard: 5 big (Condor-1) and 20 small patrol boats.
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